After Yoon improvisation

South Korea’s Constitutional Court Former President Yoon Suk Yeol was formally removed from the office because his brief martial law law was called the BBC’s “comment” and accused the judge of online corruption and sympathy for the North. But the content did not appear on the BBC websitethe socket has been confirmed as AFP.

Korean Language Graphics shared on Facebook on April 9, 2025: “BBC BBC’s comment on South Korea.”

It goes on to claim that the BBC calls South Korea “a crazy country that swallows its own flesh” and is also a “strange country of suicide.”

It said the country’s “judges and prosecutors are the main culprits of legal obstacles” and accused the Supreme Court justice of selling the country for 5 billion won ($3.5 million).

The final point of the figure says: “South Korea is a country that is undermined by its judge’s prejudice and the ideology of Jiaoqi.”

Juche, meaning Korean self-reliance, refers to the national ideology developed by North Korea’s late founding leader Kim Il Sung.

That On the same day, right-wing YouTuber had access to 970,000 subscribers, echoing a similar claim in the video: “British BBC Review: South Korea’s Path to Failure due to Legal Barriers”.

The posts surfaced after the South Korean Constitutional Court unanimously upheld the impeachment each.

Yoon claims he has taken action to protect the country’s liberal democracy from “anti-state elements” and “threats posed by North Korea.”

In another ongoing criminal trial, Yoon denied the uprising charges, and if convicted, he could face life in prison and possibly even sentenced to death (archive).

Similarly, the BBC criticized the country’s judges spread Elsewhere on Facebook and X, the Korean online forum Naver Cafe and Naver blog, as well as the website of the NBN News Agency, the Public Broadcasting System and the Seoul Authority. this It is said that Comments have At least published online 2020.

Comments show that some users have been misled.

One person said: “BBC’s comments reveal the full reality of our country. It’s humiliating.” Another person wrote: “BBC really knows it.”

But doing keyword searches on Google, as well as live and archived versions of the BBC official website, found No Similar reports or comments.

“We can say for sure that we didn’t post this,” BBC News Office Tell AFP on April 23 2025 e-mail.

Woongbee Lee, head of the BBC Korean, also told AFP that these claims “have no real basis.”

“We confirm that neither the Seoul Bureau nor the Asian Desk have published such reports or comments,” he said.

Furthermore, the tone of the fabricated comments is inconsistent with the BBC’s early reports of Yoon’s declaration of martial law and subsequent impeachment.

In the April 4 interpreter, the broadcaster’s decision to remove the court was “a victory for South Korea’s democracy.” It describes his martial law bid as “authoritarian power robbery” (a link to archive).

A report published on December 4, 2024 called South Korea a “stable, prosperous democracy.”

AFP debunked other claims arising from the martial law announced here by Yoon.